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THE
"Route-of-Wonders"
ACROSS CANADA
Go Empress from the Orient to Canada, United States and Europe.. The Empress Way includes these scenic splendors:
1. SPECTACULAR MOUNTAIN JOURNEY.....600 thrilling miles of Canadian Rockies. See Banff, Lake Louise en route. 2. CANADA'S FERTILE PLAINS...the great prairies of the
western provinces.
3. GREATEST CHAIN OF LAKES in the World...Canada's
inland oceans, the Great Lakes.
4. FALL'S FAMED AROUND THE WORLD...Niagara Falls. 5. LARGEST INLAND PORT in the World. Montreal, 1,000
miles from the sea.
ENJOY. THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS "ONE-MANAGEMENT" ROUTE
NEXT SAILING FROM HONG KONG TO VANCOUVER
FIFTH WEEK IN NOVEMBER
(Omitting Honolulu)
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA THIRD WEEK IN NOVEMBER
For Full Information Consult Your Travel Agent.
Union Buliding
Hong Kong
Telephone 20752
OR
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel System
S. K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG
MAILS
(Christmas, New Greeting Cards Year, etc.) must, contain no written mattor, except the name and address of the, sender, and must be posted in unsonlad covers, which must be clearly marked "Gropting Card". The rate of postage le 6 cents per z dunces for all! countries, except Hong Kong, China and Macao which is 2 cents par 2 ounces,
Parcel post service 'to. Cânton is ton porarily suspended,
The Imperial Airways "Service" be tween Hong Kong and Bangkok is tem=" porarily suspended. Air mail, corres pondence will be accepted at the exist-1 ing rates of postage and will be for warded by the first opportunity :by. steamer to Singapore to connect with the vast and west bound air services.
An air mail service providing a con- neotion with British Overseas. Airways at Rangoon will be available during "the period of suspension of the Hong Kong- Bangkok Service. The postage rates for all destinations will be. 31.50 per 1/2 oz. for letters and $0.75 each. for postcards: Mail for this service should be superscribed "Via' Rangoon and bear the usual blue air mali label.
Small Packet Post to all countries 19 suspended.
INWARD MAILS
TUESDAY
U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai (Seattle
date, 9th October).
Sandakan
Java and Manila
WEDNESDAY
Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways Direct Service"-San Francisco date. 5th November.
THURSDAY
London and Straits 'Calcutta and Straits
FOR
DATE & TIME
OUTWARD MAILS
TUESDAY
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu. U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser vices,"
K.P.O.
Reg.
Ord,
G.P.O.
Reg.
Ord..
WEDNESDAY
5.00 .p.m.
5.30p.m.
5.00 p.m. 7.00 p.m.
Straits, Rangoon & Calcutta.. 3.30 p.m. Manila, Australia and New Zealand
via Thursday Island..
K.P.O.
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1940-
THE
BLUE FUNNE
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST ||
FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICES |
To UNITED KINGDOM PORTS
· WELL PLACED END OF NOVEMBER SAILING
For dates and ports of call apply to Agents
PACIFIC & NEW YORK SERVICES
Are maintained as hitherto.
:
Information regarding INWARD CARGO and all matters relating to freight and passage will gladly be given by
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
AGENTS
1, Connaught Road,
NEW YORK via Japan; San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and Panaina, Call Direct at Cristobal, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore....
RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS, Montevideo Maru 21st Nov.
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS AIRES via Panama MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR,
(from Kobe).
DAR-
ES-SALAAM, BEIRA, LOU RENCO MARQUES, DURBAN, ALGOA BAY, CAPE TOWN & SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via Singapore & Colombo BOMBAY & KARACHI via Sh1- gapore, Penang and Colombo.. CALCUTTA via Singapore, Bela-
wan Deli & Rangoon KEELUNG via Swatew & Amoy CANTON
Parcels
4.00 p.m.
Tel. 30332
Reg.
5.00 p.m.
Ord.
5.30 p.m
G.F.O.
Parcels
4.00 p.m.
Reg.
Ord,
5.00 p.m. 7,00 p.m
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu. U.S.A. and Europe via. "Pan-Amari- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic, Ser- vices."
K.P.O.
Reg.. Ord.
5.00 p.m
5.30 p.m.
5th Dec. Manila Maru Terminates at. Cape Town.
30th Dec. Hawaii Maru
G.P.O.
Reg..
5.00 p.m.
Ord..
7.00 p.m.
20th Nov. Toa Maru (Accommodation for 1st class passengers only)... ·
FOR FULL PARTICULARS OSAKA SYOSEN KAISYA
"PHONE 28061 OR APPLY TO
RESIDENT
LINER
SAILING S
To San Francisco and Les Angoles
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu
8.S. PRESIDENT TAFT
8.5, PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
6.8. PRESIDENT. COOLIDGE:
To New York and· Boston
Novembar 17
December 7
December 28
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Bombay and Capetown
$.8. PRESIDENT ADAMS
6.6. PRESIDENT VAN BUREN
8.5. PRESIDENT JACKSON
November 22
December 10 December 15
To San Francisco & Los Angeles Via Yokohama
- 8.8, CITY OF NORFOLK
** AMERICAN
November 17
PRESIDENT LINES
'ROUND-WORLD_service.”
AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL AND WESTERN AIR AND UNITED air lines 12, Pedder Street.
Telephone 28171.
THURSDAY Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect with the "British Overseas Airways".
K.P.O. & G.P.O.
Reg. Ord..... Straits and Rangoon
9,00 a.m. 9.30. a.m. 10.30 a.m.
• Superscribed Correspondence Only.
RADIO
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-
'sion.
12.30p.m.The Organ, The, Dance Band, and Mo' and Turner. Layton (Voca
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and
Weather Report, J;
1.03 p.m.-Some Welsh Songs."
1.15 - p.m.--Military Band Music, 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather 'Forecast" and Announce-
ments.
by
Victor
1.45 p.m.-Dance Music
'Young and His Orchestra, 2.15 p.m.-Close Down. 0,00p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-
tions.
0.02 p.m.-Favourite Stars in Humorous Variety, with Arthur Askey, Clapham and Dwyer, Gracie Field and Sandy, Powell, Stanley Holloway, George Formby Elsie and Doris Waterą, Jack Huibert, Dave Wiltis. 7.00 p.m.-London Relay-The Nowa. 7.15 p.m.-London Relay Topical
Talks: 'Questions of the Hour. 7.30 p.m.-Dance Musle,
8.00 p.m.-Local Time.Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.02 p.m.-London Relay='Cock-A-Doo-
die-Dat'
I
Charles B. Cochran's · Saturday
Show,
9.00 p.m. London Relay The Nowa
and News Commentaries.
7.
9:30 p.m.-London' Relay-Talk: 'Scots
Abroad'.
9.45 p.m.-Medicy or Scottish Airs by the Pipore - of- the 2nd - Patt. The Queen's Own, Cameron Highlanders, 0.50 p.m.-Light Opera Selections,
"H.M.S. Pinafore"-Selection !(GII-
...bert and Sullivan),
The B.B.C. Theatro. Orchestra.. "The Boliemian: Girl"—Vocal Gümş
(Balfe).
Light Opera
Orchestra.
Company with
10.15 ** p.m.-Tchaikowsky-Trio ̈ inTM
Minor, Op: bo...
11.00 p.m.-Close Down.
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
то
AUSTRALIA
CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND,
CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC:
NEXT SAILING
·MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER, 1940
For Freight or Passage, apply to :-
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
FOR
Tel. 30332.
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